Backstory STL

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Backstory STL is a First Alert 4 podcast dedicated to highlighting local people whose life stories inspired them to make a difference in their community.

  1. Backstory STL #14: Jason Korner

    05/21/2025

    Backstory STL #14: Jason Korner

    Jason Korner is a criminal defense attorney with his own firm in St. Louis County.

    43 min
  2. Backstory STL #13: Jerry Naunheim

    05/14/2025

    Backstory STL #13: Jerry Naunheim

    Jerry Naunheim was a photographer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 25 years and covered several historical events locally and abroad.

    49 min
  3. Backstory STL #12: John Perkins

    05/07/2025

    Backstory STL #12: John Perkins

    This week's guest on Backstory STL is John Perkins. He used crack for decades and struggled to make it by. But through his lows, he found a light. Now, he wants to give back to St. Louis-area youth and be a role model he didn't have.

    57 min
  4. Backstory STL #11: Ralph Zuke

    04/29/2025

    Backstory STL #11: Ralph Zuke

    Ralph Zuke is on a 2,200-mile bike ride from St. Louis to Calgary, Canada, to raise awareness for the eradication of polio.

    1h 6m
  5. Backstory STL #10: Julie Smith

    04/23/2025

    Backstory STL #10: Julie Smith

    Julie Smith is a communications professor at Webster University and author of “Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save Our Plugged-In World.”

    31 min

  6. 04/16/2025

    Backstory STL #9: Dave Walters

    Dave Walters started disseminating news he heard on the Police and Fire scanners, eventually gaining 47,000 followers on Facebook. But after years of posting strictly news, he got personal in sharing a stage 3 cancer diagnosis. Even through that time, he has still managed to post every single day on St. Louis Scanner News.

    51 min
  7. Backstory STL #8: Bobby Bostic

    04/09/2025

    Backstory STL #8: Bobby Bostic

    Bobby Bostic was incarcerated in Missouri for 27 years. After being convicted of an armed robbery he committed at 16, a judge sentenced him to 241 years in prison - effectively a life sentence. But a recent law allowed for people convicted of crimes as juveniles to go up for parole after 15 years. In 2022, he was released from prison and is now a community advocate.

    37 min
  8. Backstory STL #7: Ed Wheatley

    04/02/2025

    Backstory STL #7: Ed Wheatley

    Ed Wheatley is an author whose love for baseball has helped keep a major part of St. Louis history alive. You know about our beloved Cardinals, but what about the St. Louis Browns? Major League Baseball's forgotten team still has a following to this day.

    1h 6m
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Backstory STL is a First Alert 4 podcast dedicated to highlighting local people whose life stories inspired them to make a difference in their community.

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  • Creator
    Matt Woods
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
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    Backstory STL